simias

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by simias 6y ago
Windows is in an even worse position because of NTFS file locking shenanigans. A lot of the time you can't even update the userspace without rebooting.
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by simias 6y ago
Google lens does it, is it not part of stock android? My phone runs Android One, so I think it's all stock but I could've missed a subtlety.
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by simias 6y ago
It's because it's meant as a meat substitute. As far as I'm concerned it's very much conscious, if you want to make the veggie version of, say, a chicken dish you'll buy "veggie chicken" which is meant to
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by simias 6y ago
I think golang's handling of packages makes a lot of sense... if you're Google, and you have a huge monorepo anyway. I think this reasoning explains a lot of my frustrations with Go: it's Google's language that they kind
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by simias 6y ago
Tagged unions never went away, it's just that, as you mention, C++ style OOP became very popular and they worked the other way around: instead of having a single function that matches the tag to figure out what to do with the data, you
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by simias 6y ago
And that's always step #1. This type of content (DIAMOND HANDS HODL TO THE MOON APE STRONGS!!!!) is easy to spam everywhere, so more reasonable people are driven away or drowned in the noise. Even if the userbase is bipartisan these ex
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by simias 6y ago
There are some elements of something The_Donald-like, but it's true that it's not (yet?) the same thing. They push a lot of very strong and completely unsubstantiated conspiracy claims in particular, and they'll quickly accus
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by simias 6y ago
Search for "short ladder" online, all the results I can find are literally days old, many from reddit itself. Beyond that, the burden of proof is clearly on the "short ladder"-believing crowd, and so far what they have c
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by simias 6y ago
Lurking the wsb threads now it's clear that none of these people have exit strategies, or even strategies at all. Even if that fabled squeeze was to take place I'm sure many of them would still be left holding the bags because t
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by simias 6y ago
>The cats at wsb might be self proclaimed retards, but they're not that stupid. They know lots of other folks are going to make money off of them. You know, if you actually visit the sub, you'd know that. The sub you seem to li
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by simias 6y ago
Right, authority-less blockchain is only intrinsically trustworthy for purely digital goods. If you want to track software licenses it might work (although 99% of the time a centralized solution will be simpler and vastly more efficient). A
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by simias 6y ago
Goroutines don't map directly to OS threads though, do they? So in practice it only matters for "hard" threads. I have no idea about what the Go scheduler looks like though, so I can't say if there's a direct relati
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by simias 6y ago
If it ain't broke... Having a common entrypoint into the kernel we can hook into is fairly valuable IMO, especially when said interface is for the most part stable between all un x (and to a somewhat lesser extent even on Windows). Hav
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by simias 6y ago
Unless you plan to never run anything but Go on your system you're going to need a libc at one point or an other. If anything this decision reinforces the NIH hypothesis for me. Almost like a prideful "NO C ALLOWED" stance wh
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by simias 6y ago
I understand that but if they're going to go down that route for OpenBSD why not bring it to all platforms? While I can believe that going the raw syscall route can be easier than dealing with libc idiosyncrasies, it seems to me that m
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by simias 6y ago
Whenever the topic of Go bypassing the libc was brought up before the concerns were usually dismissed by the Go devs, saying that it was technically impractical due to some of Go's requirements not matching the libc's semantics. D
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by simias 6y ago
Tridactyl is extremely quircky due to the limitations imposed to Web extensions though. I remember good old Vimperator to be more reliable. I get why they did it though, allowing extensions to effectively take over the browser sounds like a
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by simias 6y ago
A quick internet search tells me that between 50 and 74% of adults (depending on the source) need some for of vision correction. That's very much not niche. Also it's a pretty bad example because very rarely do you need to worry a
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by simias 6y ago
Multilingual accessibility seems to be a niche within a niche. I'm bilingual but I seldom read mixed-language content. And even when I do I wonder how often the author can/bothers to include the markup for it. If I write "cec
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by simias 6y ago
Oh no, poor literary agent caught posting on Gab, a far right white supremacist website, and losing her job. Thoughts and prayers. More seriously if you think that's a problem IMO the solution is to ask for better employee protection l
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by simias 6y ago
>This is situational and opportunistic. It can change any day. In fact, managing an important app store is exactly one way to re-(un)-balance this relationship. I agree. Sorting huge, multinational, publicly traded companies in friends a
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by simias 6y ago
I do think that in many situations dynamic linking doesn't make a whole lot of sense these days (like, say, a JPEG decoding library for instance). But having a central point where you can configure, test and administer networking makes
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by simias 6y ago
I think the network effect is much weaker here. While interacting with a website without certificate (or with an invalid one) adds friction, it's still wholly possible, at least for now. It's not like switching from WhatsApp to Te
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by simias 6y ago
But that's why there's no real need for manipulation. App store what highly rated apps and app makers want their apps to be highly rated so they use more or less dark patterns and incentives to incite users to leave good reviews.
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by simias 6y ago
Being condescending is not constructive. Can you substantiate your claim? I'm sure that there are many tweaks to the way apps are ranked, but I would expect that the rating itself would, indeed, mostly be a star average.
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by simias 6y ago
I think it's a tough decision to make. In general I understand that Google would prevent review bombing, since it can very easily be abused by social media mobs or competitors. The point of reviews is to give a genuine idea of how peop
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by simias 6y ago
Shorting in and of itself has a builtin risk/reward scenario. You're betting on the company's future performance. What's happening here is that people saw that some investors went overboard with shorting, so they started
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by simias 6y ago
I don't know enough about this subject to form an opinion on the legality and morality of what's hapenning right now but if the only rub is whether the squeeze is intentional or not I recommend that you have a peek at the wallstre
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by simias 6y ago
It's not what I was trying to say, of course they're not your friend, I'm not that naive. But on the other hand if many of their users go bankrupt because of poor trades that could backfire against Robinhood themselves, direc
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by simias 6y ago
I think it's similar to old school 4chan, mostly chaotic neutral in alignment. Today's 4chan is little more than a far-right forum.

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